redact

Meaning

Verb

• To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder.
• To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process.
• To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
• To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc.
• To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one.
• To gather or organize works or ideas into a unified whole; to collect, order, or write in a written document or to put into a particular written form.
• To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme.
• To bring an area of study within the comprehension capacity of a person.
• To reduce to a particular condition or state, especially one that is undesirable.
• To reduce something physical to a certain form, especially by destruction.

Origin

• From Old French redacter, from Latin redactus, perfect passive participle of redigō, from re- + agō.